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From: rich@pro-exchange.cts.com (Rich Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Pirating...
Message-ID: <8905301756.AA15100@crash.cts.com>
Date: 30 May 89 15:05:30 GMT
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Comment to message from: pnet01!crash!pro-europa.cts.com!jasona (Jason Asbahr)

> Most of the users with "pirated" copies are hobbyists.  As someone else
> mentioned, a business can't AFFORD to use pirated software.

A local bank has been purchasing copies of Word Perfect for $25.00 from a
local vendor.  (I think that was the price!)  If necessary, the vendor would
permit someone to make a copy of the original manual, also.

Tell me again about what "businesses can't afford".  The same bank freely
copies Lotus 123 for internal distribution.  Of course, when the individual
gets the program, and complains about not knowing how it works, they'll also
copy the manuals for them.  I suppose the theory here is that this is a
"lesser" offense than purchasing an illegal copy.  :-)

> ... participates in free exchange of them.  It is almost second nature
> to treat commercial programs likewise.

If "theft" is "their" (yours, too??) _second_ nature, what's the _first_??
Murder?  Rape?  Child Molesting?  Seems like the primary ought to at least be
something more "interesting" than the secondary!!

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